Name that Flying Machine

[nvubu]

What aircraft might this be a part of?

[dook]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

[Asturias56]

Some sort of dive bomber? Looks like the type of thing you saw on various ghastly naval types just before the start of WW2.................

[nvubu]

Not WW2 and not naval.

[Shackman]

Could this be a Sunderland - the weapon is not the usual DC, but it does look like the wind out rack!

[sycamore]

Bomb/rocket `crutches` on the `Scruggs Wonderplane`...?

[dook]

Possibly a BE2C.

[nvubu]

None of the aircraft mentioned - although not sure what a "Scruggs Wonderplane" is.

and what on earth is going on here?

[dook]

Taking the navigator for walkies.

[Asturias56]

its the bomb aimer - he walked out along the wing and used a screw driver to drop each bomb

[nvubu]

some great answers here, keep it up

[dook]

"This is left and this is right - got it ?"

[Jhieminga]

"The new intercom system between navigator and pilot is tested before flight"

[nvubu]

Jhieminga is very close.

[treadigraph]

I believe Chief Designer on the Scruggs Wonderplane project was none other than Roger Bacon...

I think Jhieminga is hot on the trail and this could be a sort of WW1 cavalier version of Bernie the Bolt - (left rein) left a bit, (right rein) right a bit, (both reins) DROP!

[nvubu]

I like the Bernie the Bolt description.

Here it is in situ.


Now for the aircraft.

[treadigraph]

DH-4 would be my suggestion - which would please Roger Bacon no end...

[dook]

The struts remind me of the DH-9, but cockpit proximity probably mean the DH-4.

edit:
"The US Mk5 bomb rack could carry 10 Mk II or II-A (22 lb; the II is high explosive and II-A is fragmentation)."

[nvubu]

Any idea which DH-4 variant it is?

[dook]

I think we'll leave that to treadigraph.